== because they have different situations of being different == It shows how hypocrisy takes a large role on the life of an individual. It is suggested in the story that everyone of the people who criticize Hooper are all sinners themselves.

In the preface to the novel Hawthorne describes a time when he worked for the city of Salem. In going through the archives he came across a folder that spoke of Hester Prym and the actual scarlet letter A.

"Hepzibah!--Hepzibah!" cried he with no little force and distinctness, "why do you keep that odious picture on the wall? Yes, yes!--that is precisely your taste! I have told you, a thousand times, that it was the evil genius of the house!--my evil genius particularly! Take it down, at once...

Hawthorne had a relative that was a judge in the Salem witches trials during the Puritan era in American history. Consequently, Hawthorne's writing was, in part, an attack on Puritanism. "Young Goodman Brown" is an example of a story containing a moral on the overreaching affects of religious...

Both are male American authors writing in the Romantic era in the New England region of America. Their main difference is stylistic: Irving specialized in shorter stories about the supernatural or otherwise odd - take "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" or "Rip Van Winkle" for examples. However, Hawthorne...

Throughout the novel, the Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne criticized the Puritans' moral upstanding. He criticized their moral upstanding because it was kind of messed up. They were expected to be 'perfect' and not sin; in reality, nobody can go without sinning their whole life-everybody sins at least...

So you could get a life Ambitious Guest is the name of a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The theme of the story is the importance of getting out of your comfort zone and embracing a life of danger. Lots of people criticized it for being reckless.The theme or purpose is to convey the importance,...

He wrote in the dark Romanticism period. Hope this helped =](born July 4, 1804, Salem, Mass., U.S. - died May 19, 1864, Plymouth, N.H.) Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/nathaniel-hawthorne#ixzz1CkNMBKo4

between 1887-1904 Hurst Burnt leather classics came out which was the first types of books then the alligator skin then, the hard covers were between 1904 and 1919 no later publishings would of been possible! because they closed their presses The Scarlet letter was published at the same time as...

' "The Wedding Knell" is full of the boldest imagintion [sic] - an imagination fully controlled by taste. The most captious critic could find no flaw in this production.' - Edgar Allan Poe, Graham's Magazine, May 1842. Please check the link below.

Nathaniel Hawthorne did not appreciate the Puritan's viewpoints towards society, sin, their strict enforced laws, and basically their principles of life. Keep in mind, his ancestors did take apart of the Salem Witch Trials (one was a judge that did not repent his actions.) So he is partially haunted...

The whole point of Young Goodman Brown is that there is no resolution. He cannot bring himself to admit that all people are partly good and partly evil and lives the rest of his life in the turmoil. The last line of the story is "his dying hour was horror."

Hawthorne was buried on what is now known as "Authors' Ridge" in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts. Pallbearers included Longfellow, Emerson, Holmes, Alcott, James Thomas Fields, and Edwin Percy Whipple. Emerson wrote of the funeral: "I thought there was a tragic element in the event,...

The narrator is an unnamed customhouse surveyor who writes some two hundred years after the events he describes took place. He has much in common with Hawthorne but should not be taken as a direct mouthpiece for the author's opinions. The point of view of the narrator is omniscient, because...

EXPOSITION A young traveler stops for the night with a family that lives in a "notch" next to a mountain. They make friendly conversation, interrupted once by the sound of a wagon carrying other travelers (who pause but do not go inside, continuing on with their journey) and then by the sound of...

The title he got from the fact the his cousin Susanna Ingersol once lived in a Gabled house. Many of the Gables were torn down by Susanna's father in the late 1700's but Susanna explained to Hawthorne that it once had 7.

If there were no guilt in crime, or in adultery, Hawthorne's book The Scarlet Letter couldn't have been written. One can infer that, just like today, most frowned upon adultery, and most crime engenderef guilt, but that didn't prevent the incidence of crime or adultery then, any more than it...